default locales should be C

[Frederic Schaer]

If you want to launch an app with another language, try this in a shell:

LANG=C man bash
(or LANG=fr, or whatever is your locale)

This should change the locale only for that app...

Cheers

Emanoil Kotsev a écrit :
> Hello,
>
> thank you anyway for not ignoring me anymore :-)
>
> cat /etc/environment
>
> gives nothing, it's empty.
>
> As far as I remember you said I have to go to the ubntu list, as it's a ubuntu problem. Or may be I'm mixing up. Some mails are classified as spam, so I skip many of them. Sorry for that.
> If I've got a definit answer I wouldn't "complain"
>
> So you've seen my nice screenshot :-) it's worth a babylon prise. For those who didn't part of the translations are in arabic, part in german and part in bulgarian. The last two I speak, also the kde configuration has them listed in this way - but the first one is boring
>
> I setup LC_ALL=C. It's english but it's consistant.
>
> Don't understand how it's possible that debian does not have this symptoms.
>
> Sorry again if I haven't seen your mail and complained again, but as you see we've got a progress. 
>
> Thanks anyway and my apologies again
>
> regards
>
> --- On Wed, 10/8/08, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
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>> From: Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca>
>> Subject: Re: default locales should be C
>> To: kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
>> Date: Wednesday, October 8, 2008, 4:21 PM
>> Martin Laberge wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> On Wednesday 08 October 2008 05:05:56 Nils Kassube
>>>       
>> wrote:
>>     
>>>> Emanoil Kotsev wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>> sorry I know "immediate" is not
>>>>>           
>> people like to hear, but I need
>>     
>>>>> immediate support on this or any a idea how
>>>>>           
>> it can be fixed.
>>     
>>>> If it is really urgent you may consider commercial
>>>>         
>> support
>>     
>>>> <http://www.ubuntu.com/support/paid>.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Nils
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> or you may edit your file   /etc/environment
>>>
>>> and add the locales by hand
>>>
>>> LC_ALL=C
>>>       
>> I don't think that would solve his problem.  It's
>> fine for those of us who
>> use English, but he's referring to a situation where
>> _his_ language is
>> Bulgarian (iirc) and untranslated apps show up with German
>> or Arabic
>> messages.  
>>
>> Not that I know why I bother to contribute, since I _did_
>> respond to his
>> original post and he complains he's been ignored...
>> -- 
>> derek
>>
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